Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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